strictlysupreme Chapter 101 Iron-Eating Beast
Chapter 101 Iron-Eating Beast
Qi Te quickly set the message notifications to "Do Not Disturb," but the ringtone kept going off.
Group members tagged him one after another to express their welcome and gratitude.
Qi Te was so embarrassed that he silently gripped the soles of his shoes with his toes. If Ji Chenyu hadn't stirred things up, everyone would probably have forgotten about this incident long ago.
Just as he was pondering how to respond, the students, with their quick wit, had already moved on to another topic.
Some suggested visiting the homes of the five students who died to see their families.
Senior student Qin Yun immediately rejected the idea.
The five victims were either classmates or in the same grade. Three of them were members of Liu Baichuan's course group and had frequent contact in the lab, so they were considered good friends. But visiting them now would only intensify the grief of the parents who lost their children.
Cao Yingchong was the first to stand up and vote in favor. Qi Te also agreed with Qin Yun's point of view and followed suit.
Qingfeng proposed another suggestion: everyone should pool their money to set up a small fund for the five victims.
Although the entire mining team purchased high-value insurance before leaving the city, and both Oasis and Blue Shield companies will take responsibility for the incident and provide some compensation to the families of the victims, the loss of their children will likely pose a problem for the future care of their elderly parents.
Qin Yun thought the suggestion was very feasible, and her senior, McGill, immediately said that her father worked in financial trust and could provide helpful assistance free of charge.
Cao Yingchong offered to provide admission to the highest-standard sanatorium in Haicheng and led the donation of 50,000 yuan. Many students from relatively well-off families immediately began to volunteer.
As they stared at the string of numbers, Qi Te and Ji Chenyu fell silent.
He had made a lot of money buying lottery tickets before, but such opportunities don't come around all the time. Qi Te had already planned how to use the money. Tens of thousands of yuan wasn't a serious blow to his current savings, but it still hurt a little.
Just as I was about to grit my teeth and donate 30,000, Cao Yingchong sent me a private message.
"I've already forwarded it to Qin, including to you and Chenyu."
After winning the lottery, Qi Te returned the money his squad leader had paid for his hospital and nursing home expenses. Now, he was in debt again.
"No need, I have some."
Before the message was even sent, senior student Qin Yun announced in the group that Qi Te and Ji Chenyu had each donated 50,000 yuan.
"Don't transfer any more money to me. This amount isn't small for you, but I don't care."
"You don't need to put yourself under unnecessary burdens because of this. If it weren't for you, we would all be dead at the border. Money is easy to repay, but how can you repay a life?"
Cao Yingchong sent two messages in a row. After a moment of silence, Qi Te finally chose to accept the other party's kindness.
However, he didn't feel at ease about it. Refusing at this point would make him seem distant and create distance between him and the class monitor, which was unnecessary.
There will be plenty of opportunities later; it's not too late to wait until you've made some money.
"By the way, what did you eat tonight?"
Mala Tang (Spicy Hot Pot)
"Stop being stingy, eat something good."
Qi Te was a little confused. Why did the class monitor suddenly send such a message? After replying with a blank look, he jumped into a ride-hailing app.
Although Jiang Luoyue met at the carnival park and brought the dragon egg in and out, she did not trigger the dangerous goods detectors at the park's entrances and exits.
But he didn't dare risk taking the subway. After all, he was now a wealthy man with six-figure savings, so taking a taxi wouldn't cost him too much.
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"Little Trump is back."
Hearing the door open, Aunt Lin, who was sitting on the sofa watching TV, quickly stood up and pointed to her mother's room: "She went to bed after dinner and said she'd go buy glutinous rice flour first thing tomorrow morning to make you glutinous rice ball soup."
"Where is Uncle Gui?"
"I got a job at the pastry shop across from the neighborhood. With the Lunar New Year coming up, business is good, so there's a lot of work."
Qi Te nodded: "Auntie, you should go back and rest too."
Aunt Lin, her waist thicker than a water bucket, swayed back to her room with a smile.
After glancing at his mother, who was sleeping soundly, Qi Te tiptoed back to his room. He placed his backpack on the desk and clicked on the control panel.
The built-in safety buckle automatically unlocked. Qi Te took a deep breath and nervously lifted the top of his backpack, preparing to take out the golden dragon egg, when his body suddenly stiffened.
Immediately, the cold thing behind me began to wriggle wildly.
'Sizzle'
His right sleeve suddenly ripped open, revealing a dark arm.
A thin, black substance quickly appeared on the right outer elbow area, as if a sharp blade had sprung out.
"No!"
Zite let out a muffled roar, trying his best to control himself, but his right arm still slammed down on the table.
At the critical moment, Qi Te forced himself back two steps and kicked his backpack onto the bed. At the same time, the black substance rapidly extended, making it look at first glance as if he were holding a scythe.
With a single slash, the small desk and the tablet computer on the table were split in two.
Clang
The table cracked and crashed to the floor.
"Go away!"
Qi Te exclaimed in surprise, his right arm involuntarily raising the 'scythe' and swinging it towards the bed.
"No, no. My bed, you can't cut it! If you cut it, will I sleep on the floor?"
While cursing in a low voice, Qi Te tried his best to control his body, hovering the scythe less than five centimeters away from the backpack.
The two forces are locked in a stalemate.
Qi Te seemed to be drunk, staggering and knocking over a computer chair, then kicking a broken table away.
As the 'scythe' grew again and was about to strike the backpack, Zite forcibly turned around.
The sickle slammed into the wall with a loud thud.
Immediately afterwards, a large crack appeared in the wall.
Qi Te panicked immediately. What if this caused the building to collapse? Forget about compensation; his mother was still asleep inside.
"Don't touch my egg, no, don't hurt that egg."
"You were sleeping soundly, go back to sleep."
"Can we talk about this? Just don't..."
Qi Te tried to persuade the little monster, but before he could finish his sentence, a barrage of curses erupted from downstairs.
"Fuck you, what the hell are you doing in the middle of the night? All that banging and clanging, can't a person get any sleep?"
"Exactly, demolishing a building! Such a huge commotion, is this crazy?"
"Which apartment is this? Are they renovating at night? Did they knock down a load-bearing wall? Are they trying to get themselves killed?"
"Call the police! Call the police now!"
We're doomed.
Qi Te had a bad feeling, and then he felt something resembling a head suddenly emerge from his right shoulder.
The cool sensation came from my neck and right cheek.
That thing kept protruding forward, and then forward again.
Finally, a jet-black, smooth head, as if covered in asphalt, appeared before Zit's eyes.
'Giggle'
Its head opened its mouth, revealing a row of sharp and ferocious white fangs, emitting a hoarse and piercing sound as if squeezed out from its throat.
Its appearance is quite different from the little monster I saw in the operating room before.
Even the brave Qi Te couldn't help but feel a chill run down his spine from this sudden attack.
Although the other party had been attached to his back and hadn't done anything to him, it was in a dormant state, and who knows what would happen after it woke up.
This is also the only thing Qi Te has been worried about these past few days. If things get out of control, it might implicate his mother.
Oh, Mother.
The little monster must have sensed the dragon egg's presence to suddenly awaken.
Start with zero frames and go berserk.
The reason for such anger is that when Sequence 0 fell, the scene was filled with the aura of the Golden Salamander.
Therefore, the little monster regarded the dragon egg, which possessed the same aura, as the murderer who killed its mother.
I'm sorry about your mother's death, but it has nothing to do with this egg.
"He, like you, also lost his mother."
"You can understand what I'm saying, right?"
Qi Te forced himself to remain calm, staring directly at the vertical pupil between the monster's forehead, carefully controlling his tone and continuing as calmly as possible: "Listen to me, your mother is doing everything she can to protect you. But this is a human city; if you are exposed, you will attract the covetous eyes of countless humans!"
"It will attract a lot of people to capture you. If they can't capture you alive, they will do everything they can to kill you."
"Therefore, you absolutely cannot be exposed; you cannot let anyone know you exist."
The vertical pupil blinked once, and then the dark little head slowly moved closer to Qi Te's face.
Qi Te dared not breathe, nervously swallowing hard.
The little monster opened its mouth, stuck out a tongue that was also jet black, and with a "smack," it landed on Chit's face.
Then, she dragged her hand up his face and licked his entire head from top to bottom before pulling the Bluetooth earphone out of his ear.
With a flick of his head, the earphone flew out and landed in his mouth.
Qi Te broke out in a cold sweat; he thought this guy wanted to swallow him whole.
After all that fuss, all I ended up with was an earphone.
He was stunned, his brain almost shut down.
However, he quickly realized a possibility.
"You need to eat, you need to eat something, right?"
The vertical pupil blinked again, and then the little head nodded.
Qi Te was overjoyed: "Let's talk this over. Don't focus on that egg anymore, it's not tasty. What do you want to eat? I'll buy it for you, as much as you want."
The little monster blinked again, then turned its head to look at the broken table.
"You...eat wood?"
As he spoke, Qi Te tried to squat down and immediately found that he could control his body normally again.
Break off a small piece of wood and bring it to the little monster's mouth.
As a result, the little head actually turned around, looking disdainful and a bit arrogant.
"Don't you like it? Is it because it's not solid wood?"
The little monster ignored him, but then Chit suddenly remembered that Bluetooth earphones were made of plastic.
So he tried plastic, glass, paper, cloth, and other materials. He even put his own finger in there, thinking that if it were bitten off, it should grow back with his current healing abilities.
But none of them are correct.
"Just tell me what we're going to eat."
The little monster turned its head to look at the desk on the ground. When Qi Te walked forward and lifted the broken table, everything suddenly went black.
In the blink of an eye, the half of the tablet computer that was on the ground just moments before disappeared.
Chite stared in astonishment, his eyes wide: "So, your food is metal?"
As if to answer his guess, the little monster opened its mouth and spat out the earphone shell and LCD fragments.
"A beast that eats iron!"
Qi Te chuckled and said, "From now on, you'll be called Tiezi. With Longdan added, the two of you will be the Tiedan duo, how about that?"
"puff"
A small section of OLED (Light Emitting Diode) shot out from the little monster's mouth and hit Zit's face.
Then, the little head peered at the phone placed on the bedside table.
"Damn, you can't eat this..."